11,170 items in this album on 559 pages.
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| Boston and Canberra nested together during change of command ceremony (RAdm Martell relieved RAdm Melson, ComCruDiv4), Norfolk Naval Base, Virginia, US, 14 Apr 1958; note Intrepid in background | Aboard USS Canberra, US Navy Hospitalman William R. Charette selecting the Unknown Serviceman of WW2 for burial in Arlington National Cemetery; off Virginia, United States, 26 May 1958 |
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| Crew of the USS Bennington honoring the sunken USS Arizona as she passes in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 31 May 1958. Note that Bennington now has an angled flight deck and a starboard side deck edge aircraft elevator. | Aerial view of Midway Atoll, date unknown; seen in Jun 1958 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News |
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| Enterprise at New York Navy Yard 10 days before her scrapping, Brooklyn, New York, United States, 22 Jun 1958 | H-34 Chocktaw helicopters aboard USS Corregidor, off Lebanon, Jul 1958; seen in Oct 1958 issue of US Navy Naval Aviation News |
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| L-20 aircraft of US Army 24th Infantry Division taking off from USS Corregidor off Lebanon, Jul 1958; seen in Oct 1958 issue of US Navy Naval Aviation News | View of antenna of USS Cassin Young immediately after her overhaul at Boston Naval Shipyard, Massachusetts, United States, 1 Oct 1958 |
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| Alexander von Falkenhausen having just received a Chinese award, Germany, 28 Nov 1958 | Chinese ambassador to Belgium Wang Xiaoxi presenting an award to Alexander von Falkenhausen, Germany, 28 Nov 1958 |
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| Diagram of the John C. Butler and Rudderow classes of destroyer escorts, the primary difference being in their respective power plants, All Hands Magazine, 1959. | Dwight Eisenhower and George Bush, date unknown |
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| Eisenhower and Franco, Madrid, Spain, 1959 | Nina Kukharchuk, Mamie Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, and Dwight Eisenhower, 1959 |
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| One of the last photographs of the former USS Chester as she was towed out of the Philadelphia reserve fleet on her way to the breakers yard, 1959. | Puyi being released from the Fushun War Criminals Management Center re-education camp in Shenyang, Liaoning Province (formerly Mukden, Fengtien Province), northeastern China, 1959 |
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| This B-17G Fortress saw no service during World War II but was purchased from surplus in 1947 and installed at this gas station in Milwaukie, Oregon with only 37 total hours on the engines, photo circa 1959. | US President Dwight Eisenhower and Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Parliament House, New Delhi, India, 1959 |
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| US President Dwight Eisenhower and Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Tehran, Iran, 1959 | US Secretary of Army Wilber Brucker, scientist Wernher von Braun, and US President Dwight Eisenhower, Jan 1959 |
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